KINGSTON, Ont. – A young team from Ontario, led by a steely-eyed skip with an audacious streak, will play for the Canadian women’s curling championship on home ice on Sunday night after a convincing playoff win over a more experienced opponent.

Rachel Homan rolled to an 8-5 win over Jennifer Jones and a previously unbeaten team from Manitoba on Saturday. With the win, Ontario will move directly to the final at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Manitoba will face Team Canada in the semi-final on Sunday morning in Kingston, Ont., where a win would lead to a rematch with Homan. The loser of that semi-final will face British Columbia in the bronze medal game.

“As soon as they messed up — [even by] inches — we were all over them,” Homan said. “It was a great team game.”

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Jones had been trying to become the first woman in almost 30 years to finish the Scotties without a loss. Manitoba went 11-0 through the round-robin, including a win over Homan — handing Ontario its only loss of the preliminary round.

Homan, 23, is making only her second appearance at the Scotties. And a victory would be lucrative. Not only does the Scotties winner advance to represent Canada at the world championships next month in Riga, Latvia, it will claim more than $213,000 in prize money and guarantees of funding heading into an Olympic cycle.

Jones, the 38-year-old lawyer from Winnipeg, earned a piece of Canadian curling history earlier in the week. She became only the second woman to earn 100 wins at the Scotties as a skip, and entered play Saturday only 30 behind Nova Scotia’s Colleen Jones for the all-time lead.

As soon as they messed up — [even by] inches — we were all over them. It was a great team game

She guided Manitoba to a procession of convincing wins in the round-robin. One of those was an 11-4 romp over Nova Scotia that left Jones — the elder, record-holding Jones — muttering about the ruthless efficiency being displayed by her younger namesake. It was all made more impressive by the fact Jennifer Jones was only eight months removed from knee surgery, and only three months removed from giving birth.

She began the playoffs with an uncharacteristic mistake. Jones sent her first skip stone of the first end off a guard and through the house. Ontario was sitting four when Jones went to throw the hammer, and the shot hit, but rolled too far, allowing Homan a steal of two.

Homan held a 5-3 lead through the fifth end break. Her repertoire of audacious shots had grown through the round-robin, and continued into the playoffs. And through the break, Homan was curling at 95%, looking flawless compared to Jones (78%).

The crowd roared in approval as Homan stole another point in the sixth end to take a 6-3 lead. And if the noise and the pressure of being a hometown rink existed at all, it did not show.

“It’s loud, times 100, when we’re making our shots,” Homan told TSN during the game. “They’re having fun, just as much as we are. We’re going to keep trying to play well for the home crowd.”